Kannenberg research

Kannenberg research

I am the genealogist for a new series on Channel Four called Extraordinary Ancestors. One of the families I am investigating is a Kannenberg family and I wonder if anyone has heard of the particular ancestors in question.

Charles Ludwig William Kannenberg was a doctor of medicine in Prussia. His son Charles Robert Kannenberg was born in Prussia on 28 October 1846. Charles Robert was shipwrecked on the coast of Ireland and met and married Ellen Margaret Magilton in or near Killyleagh, Ireland on 19 October 1872 and died in South Africa on 20 November 1912. His children, who were born in Ireland, were: